How do I delete photos from my Photo Library on an iphone 5?

If I'm in my camera roll and I hit "Edit", a delete button pops up, but when I'm in my "Photo Library" there's no delete button. I need to delete these photos because they're taking up too much space. How do I do it?

Photo Library contains a collection of all your imported photos from iTunes on your computer.
Hence, these photo can't be deleted directly from iPhone.

Apple does not allow any changes to be made to imported photos.

Thus, to delete these photos, simply connect your iPhone to computer and launch iTunes.
Here go to Library and click on iPhone 5 tab. Next go to Photos tab and uncheck the box for "Sync Photos from" and tap on Apply button.

Now all your Photo Library photos will automatically be removed from iPhone 5.

Hope it helps. I'm going to walk you through this because you seem new
1. Open photos app
2.go to albums
3. Go to camera roll
4. Tap select
5. Select the photo
6. Hit delete

now depending on your OS this process could be different and A simple google search might help you. Also it might be in a "recently deleted" folder (depends on IOS version), if you have one, make sure to empty that (like a recycle bin on the PC)

I'm going to walk you through this because you seem new
1. Open photos app
2.go to albums
3. Go to camera roll
4. Tap select
5. Select the photo
6. Hit delete

now depending on your OS this process could be different and A simple google search might help you. Also it might be in a "recently deleted" folder (depends on IOS version), if you have one, make sure to empty that (like a recycle bin on the PC)

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